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Vol.4, No.7, 357-365 (2012) Health /10.4236/health.2012.47058 Consistent prevalence of inadequate micronutrient intakes across six years of second-year medical school students * Lynn Seabolt, Taren B. Spence, Heidi J. Silver Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; * Corresponding Author: Heidi.j.silver@ Received 8 February 2012; revised 20 March 2012; accepted 17 April 2012 ABSTRACT ture health care providers—not only to serve as role models for healthy dietary behaviors, but Background: The dietary behaviors of physic- also to better recognize the nutrition needs of cians and medical students are strongly associ- their future patients. ated with their nutrition counseling practices. Little research to date describes their dietary Keywords: Micronutrients; Students; Physicians; intakes and no recent studies have assessed the Dietary Intake adequacy of their micronutrient intakes. As mi- cronutrient imbalances are associated with a 1. INTRODUCTION variety of chronic diseases, public guidelines target increasing dietary nutrient density. The Healthy People 2000, 2010 and 2020 objectives in- purpose of this study was to identify micronu- clude increasing the proportion of patients who routinely trient imbalances in the diets of medical stu- receive nutrition assessments and the pr